354 SPRAIN OF THE FLEXOR TENDONS. 



letting the other soak the while in the hot water. The water 

 should be as hot as a man can bear to immerse his hand in, and 

 that temperature ought to be maintained. One of the pieces of 

 spongio-piline may remain bound, by a common bandage over it, 

 upon the leg during the night : it will act as a poultice ; and being 

 fresh applied the last thing at night and renewed the first in the 

 morning, there will be no fear of its growing dry. During the 

 inflammatory and painful stage of sprain I do not approve of cold 

 applications. 



A FULL Dose of Cathartic Medicine will materially aid 

 our local treatment ; and 



Drawing Blood from the Arm or Toe of the Foot will, 

 when inflammation runs high, prove one of the most direct sub- 

 duers of it we can have recourse to. Supposing it does not 

 materially inconvenience or pain the animal to have the shoe 

 removed, I prefer, myself, abstraction of blood from the foot, as 

 telling more directly on the congested parts. In a slight sprain, 

 blood-letting is hardly called for. 



Cold Applications will be found preferable to warm ones, 

 so soon as the heat and tenderness have quitted or become much 

 abated in the sprained parts. After the relaxing effects of the 

 fomentation, they will brace the parts — act as a tonic to them; 

 and at the same time tend to extract any remnants there may still 

 be of inflammatory action. Various kinds of evaporating and 

 cooling and sedative embrocations are used for this purpose; 

 though I am not quite certain that an.y of them exceed much, 

 if any thing, in efficacy, simple cold water, providing the water 

 be cold, and the bandage* wetted with it be re-dipped often 

 enouD^h to maintain its low temperature. For those who think 

 otherwise, however, I subjoin a couple of formulae : — 



R Ammonise Hydrochlorat Jij 



Aceti 3iv 



Aquae Jxij 



M. fiat Embrocatio. 



R iEtheris Sulphuric. 



Sprts. Vini Rect. aa Jij 



Tinct. Lavandulae CO ji 



Aquae '. Jxij 



M. fiat Embrocatio. 

 As the tumefied parts grow cool, feel firmer, and bear pressure 

 * Linen bandages for the legs should be made of Russia duck, and measure 

 3 yards in length and Sg inches in breadth. 



